Mars Rover Curiosity to land 1:31 AM EST...

[Trailbreaker]

I'm watching it live on NASA TV, you can view it on the website...

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/ma...ity_news3.html

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

[Trailbreaker]

Sorry for double post...

Commentary and coverage starts at midnight.

[dnn]

Watching the control room roar in triumph was stunning live.

[sora]

Thanks for sharing the links.

[Trailbreaker]

Thanks for sharing the links.

Your welcome.

There's simply nothing like watching history like this being made right before your eyes.

I seriously can't wait for July 14, 2015, when New Horizons visits Pluto. I wanna see pics of that thing!

[CesarCardoso]

I'm watching it live on NASA TV, you can view it on the website...

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/ma...ity_news3.html

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

lets hope Starscream leaves this one alone. Thoses things cost money!!!

[Trailbreaker]

In case anyone missed it...



A little note: because of the time it takes for radio signals to travel from Mars and Earth, the information they were getting was from 14 minutes earlier. So while they were waiting for updates, the thing had already landed.

[Flyingheart]

Yeah this was fantastic! Let's hope it doesn't stop here.
They should have stopped the Olympics for this IMO it was totally overshadowing this news.
Would have been awesome to see the stadium people watching live stream but then again they only want Coca Cola, McDonalds, Samsung, Adidas, etc.

[kevski]

Agreed sir. Problem is, people are told what to like :head

[Trailbreaker]

Yeah this was fantastic! Let's hope it doesn't stop here.
They should have stopped the Olympics for this IMO it was totally overshadowing this news.
Would have been awesome to see the stadium people watching live stream but then again they only want Coca Cola, McDonalds, Samsung, Adidas, etc.

Agreed sir. Problem is, people are told what to like :head

I've got a beef with the folks who think projects like the Curiosity rover are a waste of tax dollars. I look at them as investments, because...well...I'll let Optimus do the talking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDuyzOyflS0

Besides, I want to live long enough to see humans actually walk on the red planet, it'll be the single greatest achievement we will ever make. Ever. I want to live long enough to read that headline on the (electronic) newspaper: "EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE FOUND." Folks don't seem to care about it right now. But when the day comes, they will care.

Curiosity is going to bring us closer to those milestones.

[Z/28]

Such an awesome achievement! I watched it live, and got goosebumps when the team at JPL went nuts at first confirmation. Congrats to all involved! I can only imagine what it must of looked like when the lander came down on rockets, lowered a car sized rover on cables and shot off into the distance...Pure Badassasery!! All the haters that said it wasn't gonna work sure dissapeared fast. GO USA!

[Trailbreaker]

Score!

NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ms...l20120927.html

"From the size of gravels it carried, we can interpret the water was moving about 3 feet per second, with a depth somewhere between ankle and hip deep," said Curiosity science co-investigator William Dietrich of the University of California, Berkeley. "Plenty of papers have been written about channels on Mars with many different hypotheses about the flows in them. This is the first time we're actually seeing water-transported gravel on Mars. This is a transition from speculation about the size of streambed material to direct observation of it."

Now I wonder what they would find if they took samples...

[Link]

If there's water in Mars, all Doctor Who fans will die of terror. I know I would.

[Trailbreaker]

So NASA is going to make a big announcement this December. Apparently Curiosity found something amazing.

"Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now"

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513...ts-mum-for-now

Grotzinger says they recently put a soil sample in SAM, and the analysis shows something earthshaking. "This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good," he says.

Could it be what we have always been waiting for?

[Trailbreaker]

Getting close...

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-092

NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars

March 12, 2013
PASADENA, Calif. -- An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.

Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon -- some of the key chemical ingredients for life -- in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet last month.

"A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment," said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program at the agency's headquarters in Washington. "From what we know now, the answer is yes."